During the 1984/85 miners strike of which I photographed extensively, I missed the opportunity to document the visit of the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners group, who travelled from London to South Wales to donate collections made to support the miners in Onllwyn, a small mining community in the South Wales Valleys.

In 2015, 30 years on from the strike, the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners revisited the Dulais Valley to celebrate their long friendship with local people. I was invited to photograph the event and thus embarked on a project to photograph the LGBTQ communities in South Wales.